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SRI LANKA

References

CIA -The World Factbook 2000

Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000

Encyclopedia Britannica, © 1999-2000 Britannica.com Inc.

Most Clearing House, Linguistic Rights, National Constitutions, Sri Lanka
http://www.unesco.org/most/ln2nat.htm#With

“Sri Lanka’s ethnic groups”, 1998
http://news1.thls.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/sri_lanka/newsid_50000/50926.stm

“Land and People”, July 29, 1994,
http://www.unhchr.ch/tbs/doc.nsf/c12563e7005aa544c125611e0043b418/2183b15aaab4ac73412563240051398a?OpenDocument

“A Brief History of the Conflict in Sri Lanka”
http://www.tamilrights.org/backgrnd/histconf.htm

Website of the Library of Congress, Country studies, Sri Lanka (Data as of October 1988)
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/csquery.html

“Challenging the myths”,
http://www.insideindonesia.org

“Denial of language rights of the Tamils”, May 10, 1996 www.tamilrights.org/news/1996n/denlang.htm

Chronology of Tamil Struggle for Independence in Sri Lanka,
http://www.tamilnet.com/timeline/

ACSLU, Australian Center for Sri Lanka Unity, The Myth of Discrimination Against Tamils in Sri Lanka, February 1996,
http://www.infolanka.com/org/srilanka/issues/acslu.html#f

Website of Perry-Castañeda Library, Map Collection, The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html

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